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Corrigal, who had been crippled, was now at work 
again, and proved to be a capital hand. All hands 
worked well, but it was amusing to note the craftiness 
of the Iroquois, who invariably tried to secure such 
articles to carry as biscuits, tents or dunnage bags. 
With immense loads of comparatively little weight they 
would then stagger off like old Atlas himself. 
When the last loads for the week were laid down at 
camp, we were a thoroughly tired party. For the past 
six days we had been laboring on long portages, and 
during that time had carried the entire outfit for a 
distance of about eight miles, over the roughest kind of 
country, representing a total transport of fifty-six miles, 
or a walk of 104 miles for each man. Sunday was 
spent, therefore, by all in enjoying complete rest. The 
weather continued fine and warm, as it had been all 
week. 
During the succeeding day and a half six little lakes 
and as many short portages, leading in a northerly 
direction, were crossed, and then at noon on the 11th 
inst. Wolverine Lake was discovered and its position in 
latitude determined. This lake, only about three miles 
in width by six in length, is by no means a large body 
of water, but because of its many deep shore indenta- 
tions and consequent coast-line of forty or fifty miles, 
it was thought by us to be large enough before we dis- 
covered our road out of it, which we knew to be by the 
ascent of a large river from the north. The shores of 
the lake were heavily and beautifully wooded with 
spruce and birch timber, and its surface was studded 
with islands. At nightfall, after exploring the utter- 
most recesses of several deep bays, without discovering 
